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Auction House:
Auction Location:
Sydney
Date:
2-Aug-2014
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Description:
Books (Various) (13). Includes Hakewill, James, the History of Windsor and its Neighbourhood, London, Printed for Edmund Lloyd [by A.J.Valpy], 1813, 21 engraved plates, including frontispiece and two plans, one double-page, and 14 vignettes, xviii,(2),359,(1)pp., edges untrimmed, imperial 4to.[35 x 27 cm], recent re-binding in 1/2 calf, spine gilt, and marbled boards, imitating previous contemporary binding. Some pale offsetting from some of the plates, more marked where the loosely inserted protective tissues have been lost (quite strong on the title page), some very occasional spots, but generally a very good copy. Lowndes p.971; Reynolds, Frederic Mansel, the Keepsake for 1829, 1830, 1833, 1835, with steel-engraved presentation page (not filled in), frontispiece and vignette titlepage, 16 plates, (8),360pp., marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, small 8vo, contemporary half red straight-grain morocco, marbled boards (rubbed), spine elaborately gilt in panels with raised bands. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown; Dingelstedt, Franz, Das Weserthal. Das Weserthal von M?nden bis Minden. Mit 36 stahlstichen. Erste Lieferung, Cassel & Leipzig, J. C. Krieger'sche Buchhandlung, Theodor Fischer, n.d., [1840?], Steel-engraved frontispiece and extra title with vignette, 23 steel-engraved plates, 13,(1),137,(3)pp., one gathering (second pp.1-8) spotted, some occasional very pale browning, small 4to., mid 19th cent. English binding in half black calf, spine gilt in panels with red title label, marbled boards. a very good copy.
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Category:
Unclassified